Roots Cuisine is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the foodways of the global African Diaspora. It is the official organization created to acknowledge and share information about a group of cuisines, cultures, and people who have shaped the world through their struggles, subjugation, triumphs, diversity, and of course through common regional and continental links to Africa. Roots Cuisine aims to document, and by extension, teach about the diverse cuisines of African Diaspora, which includes the continental African, Native American, and European foodways that left their indelible marks upon them.

Diaspora Foodways Database

Search our multilingual database for names ingredients, botanical and geographic information, common and shared food names; medicinal and folk uses of food plants and herbs; and more across the global African Diaspora.

Please explore tour Flickr gallery. We have many unique, high quality photos of food, cultural events, and landscapes, if you're interested in using a photo for something you're writing or for your website, please contact us for our Rights fee schedule and guidelines.

It's simple we're building a library collection and we need your help. From the beginning the Roots Cuisine Mission has been to promote the foodways and related culture of the African Diaspora. We want to be a clearinghouse for information where people can come to learn about these vibrant cuisines and cultures. Help us...

Join the Diaspora Foodways Network

Connect and share what you know about African Diaspora foodways.

Please fill out the form to become part of the library's global diaspora foodways network.